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7 Tips For Making A Long-Distance Relationship Work

Matt Lillywhite
5 min readAug 19, 2019
Photo by Henri Meilhac on Unsplash

“Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” — Robert A. Heinlein

If you’re reading this article, you’re probably in a long-distance relationship.

You text your partner every morning because they are always on your mind immediately after waking up.

Each evening, you count down the days until you are together again.

Every night, you fall asleep on the phone listening to their soothing voice.

You’re in love and have incredible visions for the future. Even though you are far apart, the unified bond within your relationship brings you closer.

You are unbreakable.

“Joy comes to us from those whom we love even when they are absent …; when present, seeing them and associating intimately with them yields real pleasure.” — Seneca

Long-distance relationships are not easy. But you already know that.

Because you are madly in love, willing to travel to the ends of the earth for your partner, and cannot describe the feeling of pure joy you receive each time you are with them.

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Matt Lillywhite
Matt Lillywhite

Written by Matt Lillywhite

Storyteller and part-time procrastinator. Writing to inspire, entertain, and avoid doing laundry. Substack: https://mattlillywhite.substack.com/subscribe

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